Morphology Exercise 1- MORPHEMES

MORPHOLOGY EXERCISE 1

I. Fill in the blanks with the provided words.

Derivational root suffixes
meaning Inflectional principal morphemes
letters
Lexical grammatical stem prefixes
1. Affixes are sub-divided into …… and …… according to their positions with the
base morpheme.
2. A base is also called a …… which carries the …… …… of the word.
3. All …… affixes are suffixes and perform a …… function.
4. The constituents of words are ……
5. English prefixes are always ……morphemes.

II. Identify the inflectional suffixes in the italicized words below.

1. My neighbors are very kind.  -s: inflectional noun plural suffix
2. The girl’s face turned red.
3. She likes cooking.
4. The princess has slept for a long time.
5. Cheetahs run faster than horses.
6. Who works the hardest?
7. The students want a longer summer vacation.
8. Nile is the longest river in the world.
9. They are playing football.

III. In each of the following words

A. How many morphemes are there?
B. Which morpheme(s) is/ are base(s)? Which is/are affix(es) (prefix or suffix;
derivational or inflectional; class- changing (noun/verb/adj/adv forming) or class-
maintaining?
C. Which morpheme(s) is/ are free? Which is/are bound?
1. arguably
Ex: 3 morphemes
Argue: free base
-able: derivational adj forming suffix
-ly: derivational adv forming suffix
2. beginning
3. centralization
4. cloudless
5. character
6. correspondence
7. dismember
8. everlasting
9. information
10. whitish
11. trouble
12. support
13. stupidity
14. misunderstood
15. preview

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Morphology Exercise 1- MORPHEMES

Bound bases Meanings (in English) Examples (3 words with meanings)

1. ann- year - annual (yearly);
- anniversary (the day on which
an important event happened in
a previous year);
- annuity (a fixed amount of money paid to
someone every year)
2. aqua; aque-
3. audi-
4. -ceive; cept; ceit
5. –cide
6. corp-
7. -clude
8. –cur-
9. –dict
10. –fer
11. gamy
12. -gress
13. -ject
14. man-
15. mor(t)-
16. ora-
17. pend-
18. –port-
19. –pose
20. –rod-
21. –rupt-
22. -spect
23. –tain
24. ten-
25. -vene
26. –vise; vis-
IV. Complete the following table with the meaning of the given bound bases and
words that contain these bound bases.

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